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nancy wrote:http://www.newstarget.com/gullibility.html

Thought the best PO forum on the net might appreciate this test.

I got 100, which probably makes me the most gullible person on earth.

Love to see what any of you guys (in the neutral gender sense) score, if you are happy to share...

(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

DamianB wrote:I think you guys are reading this wrong - I got 85

(Out of a range of 0 - 100, where 0 = mind slave, and 100 = free thinker.)

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Welcome to the top 5%. You're a true free thinker and a person who is well informed about the reality in which you live. Although you may have been easily manipulated earlier in life, you eventually gained lucidity and developed a healthy sense of skepticism that you now automatically apply to your observations and experiences. You are endlessly curious about human behavior and the nature of the universe, and you have one or more lifestyle habits that most people would consider odd or unusual. You are not only of very high intelligence, you are also extremely creative in one or more areas (music, art, software development, inventing, etc.)

If you were in The Matrix, you would have taken the red pill, completed the combat training, and started fighting (and beating) agents from day one.

Your architects: You have cast off reality distortions taught to you by your parents, schooling, corporate advertising and government propaganda. You create your own beliefs based on what serves you best, without much regard for what the rest of the crowd is doing. You are guided by your own internal code of ethics (which may or may not agree with politically-correct ethical codes) rather than any pre-set system of ethics (such as from any one religion).

All the clean hydrogen we need to power the world is already contained in crystals at the bottom of the ocean called gas hydrates.
TRUE. The mainstream U.S. press doesn't talk about it much, but the world's hydrogen problems have a ready solution. Frozen ice crystals found off the shores of Canada, Japan, Russia, Iceland and other nations with Northern shores contain vast quantities of clean, frozen hydrogen -- enough to power the entire world far beyond the limits of petroleum reserves. The U.S. press doesn't talk much about gas hydrates, preferring to focus on hydrogen derived from either natural gas or petroleum (resources the U.S. tends to own or control).

And a search on the US military's acknowledgement that Japan would have surrendered without the bomb is not too hard to find out the net . Try a search of www.medialens.org or a Google, failing that.

Remember that most of the time, truth is stranger than fiction.